Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Excluding multiple categories from Related Posts disables it completely
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Description
### Impacted plugin
Jetpack
### Steps to Reproduce
1. Make sure that Jetpack is installed and connected to a WordPress.com account.
2. Enable the Related Posts Feature
3. Filter categories by using the snippet for that:
4. Related Posts stop from working.
### A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
Related Posts working on all posts except the ones on the categories filtered.
### What actually happened
Related Posts is disabled on all posts.
### Other information
This initially came through the forums: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpackme_filter_exclude_category/?view=all
### Operating System
_No response_
### OS Version
_No response_
### Browser
Firefox
### Browser Version(s)
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no source file, test, or entry point. Start by reproducing the failure with Jetpack Related Posts and the category-exclusion filter described in the steps and linked forum thread; done means Related Posts remains enabled for posts outside the excluded categories.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- content
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100